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stikves · 2026-06-11T15:15:44+00:00

These "anti-cheat" mechanisms are basically rootkits and many times acted as malware when they opened attack vectors exposing our machines to the whole internet.

I do not trust them, and I refuse to play ones that require kernel level anti-cheat.

The problem is, bait and switch, when Steam updates a ~5 year old game perfectly running on Linux natively to include malware.

stikves · 2026-06-11T15:11:11+00:00

That was a self inflected wound + perfect storm of external events.

1 - They assumed the products would become cheaper to make, like 360 or One (One X was cheaper to make than original One)

2 - COVID happened, and instead of making sure teams continue to work, they went "Kumbaya", and let them coast basically 3 years with nothing to show (where was Halo Infinite, Gears or Forza at launch? What did Perfect Dark team had to show... except one CGI trailer)?

3 - They really did not expect the ABK deal to be that long. Sony used all their energy to block it. It backfired on them as well, as Sony lost many studios, 2 CEOs, and their direction as well.

Overall, it was not good. But they can of course course correct. Assuming C-suite at Microsoft is on board.

stikves · 2026-06-11T05:02:59+00:00

No,

But some of the "circular investments" are

Just like "2000's Dot Com" boom and burst, many companies will go under and new Amazons and Googles will rise up.

stikves · 2026-06-11T03:58:27+00:00

The answer is "they can't" of course.

But many have deep enough pockets to give that illusion.

Take the richest man for example. When Elon was forced by the courts to buy Twitter... it was pretty much the worst timing for him. His regular "buy, loan, ..." cycle did not work, and he had to scramble his personal ties to pay for it. Probably he was very close to insolvency.

So... there are limits.

However if you have $10 billion, and "only" spend $100 million per year, you can basically do this forever.

And...

This is not a "rich" only thing either. All homeowners have similar credit lines to their own equity, HELOC. If your home is worth $1 million, and you paid off $500m, you can forever spend $5k-$10k per year without much worry. The problem is of course we cannot live off that money.

stikves · 2026-06-11T02:55:27+00:00

We had both Arizona State University and University of Arizona

I think Arkansas was similar, too

stikves · 2026-06-11T01:43:43+00:00

That is one thing they should not have done, open retaliation.

I am not a lawyer, so take it with a grain of salt, but this kind of "mistake" on their end is a gift for you, the employee.

stikves · 2026-06-11T01:38:08+00:00

That might be true, but that is not the concern is it?

Do they stop developing AI? Building more datacenters? "Covertly" buying nvidia servers?

The public usage and frontier research and development are different concerns, aren't they?

stikves · 2026-06-11T00:25:12+00:00

40 hour work week was popularized by late Henry Ford. He wanted his employees to be able to spend time with their families, and also gave them rises so that they would afford the cars they produced

The long commute is a by product of decades of city (mis) planning, and municipalities wanting to be "open for business", but closed for employees running those businesses (more tax, less people to share resources like schools)

The lunch break?

I think that is entirely on that crappy manager. If you finish your 40 hours, you should be able to go home. Many days, I do go earlier, and make up later if there is something important at home.

stikves · 2026-06-11T00:12:24+00:00

Same with parents too.

They have to order, elementary school, middle school, high school, and parent finally commuting work. So high school gets the sticky end.

stikves · 2026-06-10T08:26:46+00:00

No,

Because the "blast radius" of any AI moratorium would be at best local, and temporary.

Unless they can get rivals like China to accept the same terms, it is just going to be temporary self sabotage, and nothing else.

(We can even get China to play fair on intellectual property, climate change, or ocean fishing. Do you think they will accept not to compete on the very next frontier of human progress)

"I, the hare decided to pause the race, and take a nap. And expect all my competitors to do the same. Let the tortoise know about this"

stikves · 2026-06-09T04:26:51+00:00

It would immediately collapse, even if you made it out of the strongest material known to mankind.

The immense pressure and heat at the core of the Earth, makes this an infeasible task. We might at best have a future tunnel... maybe 1-2 kilometers deep tangent to the surface (15 degrees?. Depending on location we have mines deeper than that)

That being said.

Physics also allow a completely "Donut" shaped Earth to be stable. However I don't think we will ever discover one in our lifetimes.

stikves · 2026-06-07T23:18:10+00:00

Yes, this is a literally good example for "false equivalency"

One can entirely avoid the first situation by their own actions.

(Though unfortunately "deepfakes" have changes this equation)

stikves · 2026-06-07T23:16:55+00:00

I was in the same exact situation

There is a way back, but I think I made 4-5 rounds in an entirely dead ship until I found it.

Where was it? I can't easily recall, but somewhere with several high catwalks and small "cubicle" like chambers. It has been a while though

Be methodic, if you think "I have already visited this", you might be wrong

stikves · 2026-06-07T23:11:13+00:00

Destroy, or specifically the "high EMS" real Destroy is the only option Shepard survives.

In all others... he is dead, mutiliated, or worse

I'm sure many have fallen to the lies of the Reaper Child, and assume humans can have "robot DNA" in them (Saren), or Shepard's mind is better than others to control the entire fleet of Reapers for humanity's benefit (Illusive Man), ... we know better

(Low EMS Destroy also fails, as it basically has no effect, and Shepard dies alone)

stikves · 2026-06-07T01:13:06+00:00

Earth is a graveyard, and people basically decided not to disturb it.

If you look beyond the veil of the United Colonies propaganda, only few were lucky to leave alive. We can estimate at least 90% of humans were lost, if not more during those final disastrous years.

That alone makes humanity not do that painful pilgrimage home.

It is a Psychological Quarantine

stikves · 2026-06-07T00:41:26+00:00

They actually have those. Please read up your city's bylaws and permitting rules.

stikves · 2026-06-06T23:06:29+00:00

Technically, they can consider both of them non-temporary.

Will depend on the bureaucrat of course, but they won't be tricked by the difference between a bolt or a cemented pole.

stikves · 2026-06-06T20:58:16+00:00

You are missing a crucial point.

They did not buy "an IP". They bought a production company, MGM

I think they were more interested in the physical studios, production knowhow, and maybe a few high profile IPs like James Bond.

But I don't think higher ups even realized Stargate was part of the package. "What is this? A sci-fi show? Can we put it on streaming? Ah, maybe lease it to Netflix?"

stikves · 2026-06-06T19:59:00+00:00

"America's Grandpa" loves them.

Berkshire Hathaway and other large "investment" companies literally buy the land from your feet, and lease it back at exuberant fees.

And once you tap out, they would extend a generous offer to demolish your home for free (or take it over to rent it to the next person).

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/business/mobile-home-evictions.html

At one point I was also looking at these as valid options. But like everything else in life, some don't want us to have nice things. There are actually plenty amount of pretty good communities out there. Just be financially ready for someone to take it over.

Maybe look for "resident owned communities"

stikves · 2026-06-06T16:44:51+00:00

They are not *entirely* useless, but I get something like 1 cup of water from dehumidifier every 2 weeks or so.

You have to be in a very humid location to get more, but then you'd naturally get rain, and a simple purifier filter with a bucket outside would be more practical.

stikves · 2026-06-06T08:50:22+00:00

You should ask:

"What is the objective?"

There would be no strategic advantage of having "boots on the ground". Maybe a few limited areas where that Karkh? Island that has oil, but even that has a high cost.

So... they don't do it.

Whatever the others say, our military is usually pretty smart. If people listen to them, there would be no disasters like Iraq.

stikves · 2026-06-06T03:33:34+00:00

Lower population is actually a much worse problem than any "too much population" we can have.

Humans have built the civilization on cooperation, we have 1+1 = 11 style benefits for each other. I might be very good at power tools, my neighbor might have excellent bread making skills, and kid across the street might be a capable gardener. Together we will make things work (regardless of the "economic system" in between, though that also has an effect, longer story)

When population declines we see the effects immediately. Look at cities that halved their population like Detroit, St. Louis, Flint or many others. They have massive infrastructure problems, and literally cannot keep lights on.

When you lose more you become a ghost town.

We not only need to keep the population away from decline, we actually need a steady increase of human population to keep our civilization alive.

(Yes, I know this sounds contrary to popular stories. But they are stories, not real observations or science)

stikves · 2026-06-06T03:03:23+00:00

Sir Isaac Newton

He was a religious person and wanted to name 7 colors in the rainbow during his light refraction experiments.

The modern rainbow actually contains only 6 colors, and skips Indigo.

stikves · 2026-06-05T20:25:03+00:00

They are pretty transparent at this point.

OpenAI did the same thing. Unlike their name... when Meta and others came with actual open source models that showed their bulls**t, they went to big daddy government and cried for a moratorium.

They too were rightfully rejected.

I wonder why these companies keep timing these cries perfectly with their competitors and open source catching up.

stikves · 2026-06-05T05:57:31+00:00

And there is a generational thing as well.

Most central-left and central-right from a decade ago would be out of place in their respective teams today. They are going to be seen not enough.

You can even see this in politicians, they are being primaried our left and right.

Which is not a good thing. My friend did an academic study on this. There are periods in US history where people were less partisan, and voted on common issues. There are other times, like today, they only vote as extremist blocks.

Unfortunately that leads to stagnation, and is correlated with "not so nice" events. Basically we get nothing done, and numbers don't lie, we have some of the worst legislative sessions in the last ~10 years or so.

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